Bio: Brunson, Celia (1875 – 1914)

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Surnames: Teberg, Anderson, Brunson

----Source: Jeff Brunson Scrapbook

Celia Teberg was born in 1875 near the city of Malmo in Scania (Skåne), the southernmost district of Sweden, to John and Carrie Teberg.

In 1882 the family immigrated to the United States when Celia was age 7 and her sister Matilda was 3, and were living in Darwin, Meeker Co., Minnesota, in May 1885. Celia's mother gave birth to two more daughters, Sophia (1883) and Florence Ellen (1886), in Minnesota.

On January 5, 1894, in Litchfield, Meeker Co., Minnesota, Celia married a Swedish immigrant named John Anderson (born about 1870). They had two sons, Albert (1894) and Ernest (1895). Shortly after the birth of Ernest, John was killed in a sawmill accident. In June 1900, now-widowed Celia and her two sons were boarding in Litchfield.

Meanwhile Celia’s parents had moved to Rice Lake, Barron Co., Wisconsin. Celia and her two sons soon moved in with them. While working as a waitress in Rice Lake, she met Emery Brunson, and they married in Rice Lake on May 2, 1902.

Celia and Emery farmed in Garden Valley, Jackson Co., Wisconsin. Between 1903 and 1913 they had four sons, Charles (1903), John (1904), Clarence (1905), Roy (1907); and three daughters, Matilda (1908), Nellie (1911), and Mae (1913). Matilda died in 1911.

While giving birth to stillborn premature twins, Celia died at the age of 39 on November 14, 1914. She is buried at Houghtonburg Cemetery in Alma Center, Wisconsin. Her obituary was published in the local newspaper Humbird Enterprise:

"Brunson, Mrs. Emory (? - 10 NOV 1914). One of the saddest death that we have been called upon to chronicle for some time, is that of Mrs. Emory Brunson, which occurred at her home in Garden Valley Tuesday night. She was ill but a few hours and her untimely death came as a great shock to her husband and the family of six children. Funeral services will be held at the home this Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Prucia, and the burial will be in Houghtonburg Cemetery. The sympathies of all are extended to this bereaved family in their hour of deepest sorrow."